I have not owned a really good Barton Athlon XP since my stupid Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe for no palpable reason at all burned my ultra rare unlocked 2333 Mhz (166 MHz FSB) version of the XP 3200+.

The 2333 MHz XP 3200+ did 2500 Mhz at stock voltage (1.65), 2600 MHz at 1.75V and 2700 MHz at 1.85V not only bench stable but fully stable.

I do have about 10 or so other Bartons but they are locked and/or clocks rather bad but now finally I think I have found a worthy replacement.

I just bought the beauty pictured for 10 Euro + 5 euro shipping. There was only one or I would have bought more.

If someone in the US wants a really good Barton there is a 1.55V version of the XP-M 2800+ AXMJ2800FHQ4 (2133 MHz) on Ebay for $24 or offer. I would have made an offer if the seller was in Europe and the shipping to Sweden was cheaper. There is also one XP-M 2800+ AXMJ2800FHQ4 in France for 32 euro + 5 euro shipping, that is just too much for an Athlon XP CPU.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … J2800FHQ4C.html

The Athlon XP-M is fully unlocked so it's capable of running at high multipliers on old VIA KT133 boards. As the multipliers can be controlled with software it can be overclocked in a motherboard with a locked down BIOS.

My new Athlon XP-M 2400+ 13.5 x 133 = 1800 MHz 1.35V 35W. These do not turn up on Ebay that often but the 45W and the 72W versions are more common.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … D2400FJQ4C.html

The sellers picture.

Finally received my Roland SC-88VL/PC-70/MA-5P combo. I was a bit shocked by the shipping charges, which were somewhat higher than anticipated, and then was more shocked when two REALLY HUGE boxes showed up on my doorstep. Turns out the PC-70 MIDI controller includes the original box, cardboard inserts and MIDI cable besides the power supply and the (nearly unused) foot pedal. The SC-88VL and MA-5P powered monitors also came in their own box, with some cardboard inserts, both power supplies, four software manuals (not pictured in auction) and all audio cables (also not pictured).
Unfortunately the software was not included (nor was it mentioned in the auction), but since the programs were named on the box I now know what to look for and already managed to download a copy of Roland DoReMix from a page that also contained some other old MIDI software.

So was it worth 70 bucks + 200 bucks in shipping charges? I think so, the items are in really nice state besides some yellowing white plastic and buying comparable stuff new would have cost me quite a bit more.

Now to find a certified power strip for 100V appliances that I can hook up to my voltage convertor (instead of some unsafe cheap Chinese shit)...

dieymir wrote:

I'm using it on a 486DX2 also. I have installed PTS-DOS to overcome the 528MB limit (this DOS supports disk >1024 cyls. out of the box) but I have to disable the Promise BIOS or it will severely corrupt data. Currently I'm using the card in write back (turbo) mode with the mainboard AMI WinBIOS Initially I have concerns about this but it rocks!!

Have you found any compatibility issues with the PTS-DOS kernel?

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I have not owned a really good Barton Athlon XP since my stupid Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe for no palpable reason at all burned my ultra rare unlocked 2333 Mhz (166 MHz FSB) version of the XP 3200+.

The 2333 MHz XP 3200+ did 2500 Mhz at stock voltage (1.65), 2600 MHz at 1.75V and 2700 MHz at 1.85V not only bench stable but fully stable.

I do have about 10 or so other Bartons but they are locked and/or clocks rather bad but now finally I think I have found a worthy replacement.

I just bought the beauty pictured for 10 Euro + 5 euro shipping. There was only one or I would have bought more.

If someone in the US wants a really good Barton there is a 1.55V version of the XP-M 2800+ AXMJ2800FHQ4 (2133 MHz) on Ebay for $24 or offer. I would have made an offer if the seller was in Europe and the shipping to Sweden was cheaper. There is also one XP-M 2800+ AXMJ2800FHQ4 in France for 32 euro + 5 euro shipping, that is just too much for an Athlon XP CPU.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … J2800FHQ4C.html

The Athlon XP-M is fully unlocked so it's capable of running at high multipliers on old VIA KT133 boards. As the multipliers can be controlled with software it can be overclocked in a motherboard with a locked down BIOS.

My new Athlon XP-M 2400+ 13.5 x 133 = 1800 MHz 1.35V 35W. These do not turn up on Ebay that often but the 45W and the 72W versions are more common.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … D2400FJQ4C.html

The sellers picture.

AXMD2400FJQ4C.jpg

Just an FYI sharing with y'all. If you want good info for overclockable athlonXP chips, check out this: https://web.archive.org/web/20091113154547/ht … des/barton.html

I don't want to de-rail this thread by discussing it here, I could open a new thread on it if y'all want. But just an old bookmark I've had for years, sharing info since someone brought the subject up.

15" Apple Studio Display, £12 from local seller. The perfect companion for my Power Mac G4.

Skyscraper wrote:

I have not owned a really good Barton Athlon XP since my stupid Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe for no palpable reason at all burned my ultr […]
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I have not owned a really good Barton Athlon XP since my stupid Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe for no palpable reason at all burned my ultra rare unlocked 2333 Mhz (166 MHz FSB) version of the XP 3200+.

The 2333 MHz XP 3200+ did 2500 Mhz at stock voltage (1.65), 2600 MHz at 1.75V and 2700 MHz at 1.85V not only bench stable but fully stable.

I do have about 10 or so other Bartons but they are locked and/or clocks rather bad but now finally I think I have found a worthy replacement.

I just bought the beauty pictured for 10 Euro + 5 euro shipping. There was only one or I would have bought more.

If someone in the US wants a really good Barton there is a 1.55V version of the XP-M 2800+ AXMJ2800FHQ4 (2133 MHz) on Ebay for $24 or offer. I would have made an offer if the seller was in Europe and the shipping to Sweden was cheaper. There is also one XP-M 2800+ AXMJ2800FHQ4 in France for 32 euro + 5 euro shipping, that is just too much for an Athlon XP CPU.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … J2800FHQ4C.html

The Athlon XP-M is fully unlocked so it's capable of running at high multipliers on old VIA KT133 boards. As the multipliers can be controlled with software it can be overclocked in a motherboard with a locked down BIOS.

My new Athlon XP-M 2400+ 13.5 x 133 = 1800 MHz 1.35V 35W. These do not turn up on Ebay that often but the 45W and the 72W versions are more common.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … D2400FJQ4C.html

The sellers picture.

AXMD2400FJQ4C.jpg

Nice cpu! I have a Barton mobile 2500+ and it is awesome. Does 2500mhz stable without breaking a sweat, didn't test it any higher yet. Also runing on a a7n8x-e deluxe which is a nice barton mobo.

Well, I've taken the plunge; behold my Toshiba Libretto 70CT. It's in need of a very good clean and more than a few screws, but everything seems to work! Even the battery, although it often will throw a fit and refuse to run with the battery plugged in - ah well. I also have its floppy drive. Wasn't cheap, but wasn't on par with a lot of the pricier Librettos either!

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Well, I've taken the plunge; behold my Toshiba Libretto 70CT. It's in need of a very good clean and more than a few screws, but everything seems to work! Even the battery, although it often will throw a fit and refuse to run with the battery plugged in - ah well. I also have its floppy drive. Wasn't cheap, but wasn't on par with a lot of the pricier Librettos either!

Man, nice libretto, i always have been fanatic about this one but its hard to find a good one on ebay.

Tseng Labs ET-1000A (hercules + cga). Picked this up to see if I can drive it from a Z80 homebrew computer to get basic video out or not.

.legaCy wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

Well, I've taken the plunge; behold my Toshiba Libretto 70CT. It's in need of a very good clean and more than a few screws, but everything seems to work! Even the battery, although it often will throw a fit and refuse to run with the battery plugged in - ah well. I also have its floppy drive. Wasn't cheap, but wasn't on par with a lot of the pricier Librettos either!

Man, nice libretto, i always have been fanatic about this one but its hard to find a good one on ebay.

It's a really lovely system. I must find some way of getting the floppy version of 95 though; 16MB of RAM isn't really enough for 98. It also gives me a valid purpose for my 260MB PCMCIA HDD - no USB ports and the older type of PCMCIA! I've ordered some equivalent screws to fill all the holes.

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Got a Gravis Firebird 2 joystick today. It's Friday, and I'm bit lazy, so here's the seller's photo:

As far as I undrstand, this was their last high-end model before they moved into lower price segment with models like Blackhawk and others.

I also have a Gravis Phoenix and a Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro. This one has the same graphical DOS software for configuration and diagnostics, but it just feels a lot better in your hand. The handle could be bigger but it has much better grip and buttons layout than the Phoenix. It also uses the same connectors: a gameport and a keyboard port interceptor (PS/2 and AT).

Compared to Sidewinder it has more buttons and proper DOS software that allows you to configure every single button down to specifics (including turbo modes and delay) but it needs manual adjustment. According to reviews it should also have a Thrustmaster and CH Products emulation modes (just like Sidewinder), but I haven't figured out a way to enable either one.

Sadly my joystick didn't come with the original floppy, but I used archive.org to browse Gravis old FTP listing. A Firebird 2 drivers archive is called pcfbird2.zip which is easy to google. You can find it here, for instance.

I found 2 cards today on a "street market" thing.

An SCSI controller, looks almost new, and i think more interestingly a "DoubleTalk PC" card, seems to be for Speech Synthesis, i hope it works, the eprom was not covered and the cards where in the sun, so who knows.

oh, almost forgot, also found this network card.

I finally received my Abit BH6 😁

I will finally be able to use my slot 1 pentium 3 and be able to overclock my pentium 2s 😁

Unfortunately, I have the revision which doesn't have the 1/4 PCI divider for 133MHz fsb ...

I wonder why they never made it working as all BX chipsets have this divider built in 😒

Deksor wrote:

I finally received my Abit BH6 😁

Resize your image dude

Sorry for that 😢

Few more vgas

Abit R9550

NV G2 PRO

GW FX5200 Ultra

Hercules G2 Ti

so line is complete Ultra/Ti/GTS

Creative Banshee

and last one I bought boxed R9200SE

but it wasnt 9200 there 😁

first post no problem so tomorrow will be some fun

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and last one I bought boxed R9200SE

but it wasnt 9200 there 😁

first post no problem so tomorrow will be some fun

Congrat's... Guess it was a pleasent surprise. 😀
Yeah... I would really like to have seen you'r expression when you opened that box.

Hahaha nice one! Great way to score a voodoo4 4500, i guess it was a lot cheaper this way. 😎

The last couple of saturdays i went to the recycler, today was no different:

3dfx Banshee agp. Card is dead.
Rendition pci 4mb. Card is dead, small smd parts broken off etc..
Radeon 9800pro 256mb. card is dead
Pentium pro board Intel. Board is dead (fans spin but that's it. Cpu doesn't get warm, no beeps)
Pentium pro cpu 200mhz. A LOT of bend pins and it took me a great while but i got them all straigtened out. I assume it works.
TNT2 ultra agp. Was missing a heatsink and backplate but couldn't leave it because it is an ultra. Card works!
Creative voodoo2 12mb. A LOT of bend legs on the chips. Straightened them, tested the card and it runs fine!
Msi 6119 slot1 440bx board. Missing bios ofcourse (they pull them) but did a hotflash and it is running fine!

About 50/50 this time and a lot of fiddling with pins and legs of chips. A bit bummed the pentium pro setup didn't work but you can't win them all.

Skyscraper wrote:

I have not owned a really good Barton Athlon XP since my stupid Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe for no palpable reason at all burned my ultr […]
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I have not owned a really good Barton Athlon XP since my stupid Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe for no palpable reason at all burned my ultra rare unlocked 2333 Mhz (166 MHz FSB) version of the XP 3200+.

The 2333 MHz XP 3200+ did 2500 Mhz at stock voltage (1.65), 2600 MHz at 1.75V and 2700 MHz at 1.85V not only bench stable but fully stable.

I do have about 10 or so other Bartons but they are locked and/or clocks rather bad but now finally I think I have found a worthy replacement.

I just bought the beauty pictured for 10 Euro + 5 euro shipping. There was only one or I would have bought more.

If someone in the US wants a really good Barton there is a 1.55V version of the XP-M 2800+ AXMJ2800FHQ4 (2133 MHz) on Ebay for $24 or offer. I would have made an offer if the seller was in Europe and the shipping to Sweden was cheaper. There is also one XP-M 2800+ AXMJ2800FHQ4 in France for 32 euro + 5 euro shipping, that is just too much for an Athlon XP CPU.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … J2800FHQ4C.html

The Athlon XP-M is fully unlocked so it's capable of running at high multipliers on old VIA KT133 boards. As the multipliers can be controlled with software it can be overclocked in a motherboard with a locked down BIOS.

My new Athlon XP-M 2400+ 13.5 x 133 = 1800 MHz 1.35V 35W. These do not turn up on Ebay that often but the 45W and the 72W versions are more common.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … D2400FJQ4C.html

The sellers picture.

AXMD2400FJQ4C.jpg

... the A7N8X has pretty mediocre CPU power delivery... if you want to make sure that doesn't happen again, I highly recommend getting an Abit AN7. The DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra (REV B) is also excelent when it comes to power delivery, but they're so rare it's barely worth mentioning. I did have a couple of mishaps myself with the A7N8X - killed my only athlon XP M CPU (2500+) and one stick of ram. Turns out one of the N-Gates was faulty - it would get out of spec when hot.